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In other situations, this can be a line uttered by either [[The Obi-Wan]] or the [[Big Bad]]. In the former case, he is telling our young hero not to be brash and preperation is very important (though the hero will rarely listen). In the latter case, it is used as a rather [[Large Ham|hammy]] [[Trash Talk|taunt]].
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** Usually in reference to some [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]].
* Similar to the above, [[Star Wars|Yoda]] informs Luke of this when he goes to face Vader on Cloud City.
** Played even more straight with Anakin's accession to Jedi Master in Episode 3. [[Samuel L. Jackson]] knows a thing or two about ready, and
* At the end of ''[[Gremlins]]'', Mr. Wing shows up to claim Gizmo and berates the Peltzers for not following the rules of proper Mogwai care and states "You are not ready!" When he sees how much Gizmo has come to care for Billy, Mr. Wing decided Billy may be ready "one day". (Did somebody say "sequel"?)
** They sure did, but Mr. Wing was too dead to deem Billy ready by that point, so Gizmo heads out on his own to find his new master again.
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** In other words, exactly what the Autobots and Decepticons have been doing to each other for the last several million years? (Actually, this is sort of the point. Optimus likes humanity and does ''not'' want them ending up in a repeat performance of that).
* ''[[Mortal Kombat (film)|Mortal Kombat]]'' had Raiden tell Liu Kang he wasn't ready to face Shang Tsung. Which is quite weird, because he tells him he is ready, near the end, although we don't see anything changing in Liu Kang's character nor he learns any new skills.
* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'' the Sphinx tells the others they are not ready to confront the [[Big Bad]] because they need training (and [[Ice Cream Koan
== [[Literature]] ==
* This trope may have originated (in [[Science Fiction]], at least) with [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Lensman]]'' series back in the late 1930s. In that series, the rise of humanity and most other intelligent life in the Milky Way galaxy is part of a master plan by the [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Arisians]], who are about one step short of [[Energy Beings]]. The goal of the plan is the eventual overthrow of the (quite nasty) Eddorians. However, at almost every step in the process the Arisians keep the ultimate goal a secret from humanity and its allies, and avoid making their own immense power obvious to them, for fear of "creating an inferiority complex" among the species they have raised to deal with the problem. In other words,
* The excuse used by all of [[Bruce Coville]]'s aliens for why they don't swoop down and end all disease and strife on Earth. His last few books just had them as merchants who wanted stuff in return - they got peanut butter and ketchup.
* In [[Iain Banks]]' novella ''The State Of The Art'', a [[The Culture|Culture]] Contact ship spends several months snooping about on Earth in 1977, before deciding not to contact us. Not so much because the Culture has any [[Alien Non-Interference Clause|qualms about influencing]] the
* Used and Subverted in the ''Nights Dawn'' trilogy, The hyper advanced aliens, the Kiint, refuse to solve humanity's "reality dysfunction" crisis, saying that each race faces it, and must find their own solution. On the plus side, they are more than willing to use their advanced technology to give humanitarian aid to those that become affected.
* Inverted in ''Speaker for the Dead'', where it's the humans telling the piggies that they are not ready for all the fancy human technology like spaceships and ansible
* In Vernor Vinge's novel ''A Deepness in the Sky'', it's the humans hiding from the aliens while they wait for them to become Ready, and ''they'' are the ones who require technical assistance from the more primitive aliens.
* In [[The Belgariad|The Mallorean]], Belgarath tells Garion he needs 2,000 years of study before touching weather again. [[Disaster Dominoes|considering what Garion triggered,]] Belgarath is entirely right to demand this.
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** Sebastian, the Inquisitor sent by Vorlons to test Dellen's resilience and spirit, replies with this to Sheridan's questions about Vorlons.
** After Vorlons {{spoiler|leave the galaxy}} Lyta, who had been tightly involved with them, said that it would take humans more than a million years to get ready for a visit to the Vorlon homeworld.
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* Basically the reason the Vulcans gave for not giving humans the technology to go to Warp 5 pre-''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''. The NX-01 is the humans' Warp 5 prototype, nearly 50 years and much emnity between humans and Vulcans later.
** Many instances in ''Star Trek'' media where the Prime Directive is invoked revolve around this trope; Starfleet crews are on occasion conflicted between moral pressure to help those in need and complying with the Federation's rules about "interfering" with less-advanced cultures.
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